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The Computing Research Association says NSF budget cuts would put the future of U.S. innovation and security at risk.
May 2025 - Vol. 68 No. 5
Features
Given the sensitivity and even danger of the human realms affected by computer science, we need to address the establishment of our work as a profession.
Shining a Light on AI Hallucinations
Researchers and data scientists are actively exploring ways to rein in AI hallucinations through improved training and model refinements.
Most IT professionals worry their jobs will be replaced by AI tools, while more companies attribute reductions to "technology updates" rather than AI.
Automating Tools for Prompt Engineering
Automated prompting techniques can generate, select, or optimize prompts to improve the performance of models.
The TikTok Ban and Its Consequences
The Supreme Court’s unsigned opinion upholding the TikTok ban sidesteps almost all of the major legal issues in the case.
Can We Build AI That Does Not Harm Queer People?
Outlining some ways to build queer-friendly systems.
Boolean Clashes: Discretionary Decision Making in AI-Driven Recruiting
A closer look at how recruiting professionals use AI systems, and how this affects their decision making, is needed to mitigate potential discrimination in recruiting.
The use of AI systems developed without a primary consideration of accountable explainability could have the polluting effect of nudging people toward superficial and thus dogmatic thinking.
Deterministic Record-and-Replay
Recent research advances related to deterministic record-and-replay show its broad and enduring applicability.
Ransomware: Extortion Is My Business
A look at ransomware, its ecosystems, the impact of its attacks, and the tactics of its attackers.
Envisioning Recommendations on an LLM-Based Agent Platform
The Rec4Agentverse paradigm for LLM-based agent platforms brings significant changes to recommender systems in areas such as user preference modeling and collaboration mechanisms.
‘What I Think about When I Type about Talking’: Reflections on Text-Entry Acceleration Interfaces
The GenieTalk system was designed to address physical and cognitive barriers in sentence prediction and phrase retrieval systems.
Can We Measure the Impact of a Database?
The h-index can be extended to hierarchical structures, allowing the impact of authors and journals to be measured on a large class of databases and datasets.
Technical Perspective: Toward a Generalized Accelerator for Genome Sequence Analysis
GenDP offers an important step toward addressing the need for a universal accelerator.
GenDP: A Framework of Dynamic Programming Acceleration for Genome Sequencing Analysis
The proposed GenDP framework of dynamic programming acceleration for genome sequencing analysis supports multiple DP kernels.
Technical Perspective: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory
The high-performance tree index uses a lock-free search with versions to resolve read-write conflicts and exclusive locks to resolve write-write conflicts.
Designing an Efficient Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory
Sherman demonstrates that combining RDMA hardware features and RDMA-friendly software designs can enable a high-performance index on disaggregated memory.
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